Episode 174 – Baby-sitters’ Summer Vacation!
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
We’re putting the “summer” in Flashback Summer by going to camp with our friends, the Baby-Sitters Club (and also our friend literary agent Amy Stern). We read Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #2: Baby-sitters’ Summer Vacation and Baby-Sitters Club Friends Forever Super Special #1: Everything Changes, both by Ann M. Martin. We loved revisiting these books, but we’re not sure we’d send any children to visit Camp Mohawk. Listen to this episode while researching the summer camp accreditation process!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “How The Baby-Sitters Club Made Social Justice Fun for Tweens” b
“These 19 Institutions Are the Best Summer Camps in the Country” by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Coming up next: Claudia and Mean Janine by Ann M. Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about questionable child care ratio so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.6 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:24.1 | And for this episode, we read Babysitters Club Super Special No. 2, Babysitter's Summer Vacation. And everything changes. The Babysitters Club |
| 0:30.8 | Friends Forever Special Number 1, both by Anna and Martin. Joining us to discuss the super special summer stories is the most senior junior CIT at Camp Mohawk, Amy Stern. |
| 0:44.6 | Hi. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi, Amy. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm so excited to get to talk about the babysitters club. |
| 0:53.8 | This was like my fandom before I knew what fandom was. |
| 0:56.7 | Like I, like every page that I was reading when I was rereading these for this, it's like, yeah, I knew every bit of that. |
| 1:05.4 | None of this is a surprise because I read these books to death. |
| 1:10.4 | It's, I'm glad that you brought the Friends Forever to my attention because, well, I'll just say, |
| 1:17.6 | the Friends Forever, they came out in 1999 and 2000. |
| 1:21.3 | And so for me, that was a little bit when I had stopped reading Babysitters Club. |
| 1:25.1 | So I didn't know that this kind of follow-up series even existed until now. |
| 1:31.1 | And then reading it, I had honestly such a huge emotional response to this new babysitters |
| 1:37.9 | club content versus the super special summer vacation. |
| 1:43.3 | To me, when I was a kid, that was probably my all-time favorite babysitters club book. |
| 1:48.6 | I definitely, this one lives in my mind. |
| 1:52.1 | I definitely had this one pseudo-memorized. |
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